Oyeyiola-Ourias Oyinkansola Adesewa - SYNW Young Writer of the Month (September 2020)

 

OYEYIOLA-OURIAS OYINKANSOLA ADESEWA - SYNW YOUNG WRITER OF THE MONTH (SEPTEMBER 2020)

 

OYEYIOLA-OURIAS Oyinkansola Adesewa is an 18 year old final year Mass Communication student of Les Cours Sonou Universitaire, Benin Republic. She is a girl child activist and advocate. She is the Founder of “Girls Day Out with Oyinkan” (GDOWO) a yearly advocacy workshop that celebrates the United Nations International Day for the Girl Child. She is also the Founder of Haywire Street Art Painting, a collective of talented girls using arts to advance the cause of women empowerment.

Oyinkansola is a multi-talented performance poet, visual artist, writer, actor and designer (design clothes and batiks), dancer, model and motivational speaker, event planner, caterer and make up artist. She's as well a radio presenter for kiddies program (Ajapa World) and she is an MC (anchored the ''End violence against children in Nigeria'' in 2016, which was organised by the Lagos state government in  collaboration with USAID, UNICEF,CDC and so on). She has participated in some group art exhibitions (Africa4Her at TerraKulture, National Gallery of Art and Culture, National Theatre (Association for the advancement of women in culture-AA.WC-2016) and Tender Arts at SilverBird Galleria).

She has also performed poetry at MAKE MUSIC (World music day) in 2017. She started writing at the age of 6. Her first book titled “Thoughts of a Child” was published when she was 8 years old through a writing contest that she won. Oyinkansola has won a lot of awards and competitions like the Best Art Work at the National Gallery of Arts Competition, Creative Young Artist of the year by the Global Foundation Award and Young Author of the Year by Child Rights Initiative including other numerous awards.

Oyinkansola is a budding technology enthusiast and she strongly believes that technological skills should be used to empower the girl child in Africa. She is very passionate about social justice and community development.

Ifeoma Isabella Ozomene Okeke – SYNW Young Writer of the Month (September 2020)

 

IFEOMA ISABELLA OZOMENE OKEKE – SYNW YOUNG WRITER OF THE MONTH (SEPTEMBER 2020)

 

Ifeoma Isabella Ozomene Okeke is a female writer from Isseke, Ihiala Local Government, Anambra state.

She has written a lot of Stories; Novels, Scripts and Short stories. A former Nollywood actress who had used the connection she had when acting to write Scripts for Nollywood producers and Cartoonist.

She is yet to publish her book in hard copy but you can find her works on Okadabooks. She has two pages where she post her interesting stories and a group (65+) where she allow others writers to showcase their talent of writing.

Ifeoma popularly called, Omaisabella, by her fans enjoy writing stories mostly paranormal fantasy and epic stories.

In her words; 'I was born a reader not a Writer but writing discovered me.'

All through my secondary school I was told that I would never get anywhere if I didn’t stop daydreaming about what I read. Eventually it occurred to me to write down my daydreams, and hey! The ladies and men in my head came to life. In my story, no One Is Ugly because We Are Not Ugly.

"I believe in a happy ending and will always work toward making one happen in all my stories and in real life."

Fubaraibi Benstowe – SYNW Young Writer of the Month (September 2020)

 

FUBARAIBI BENSTOWE – SYNW YOUNG WRITER OF THE MONTH (SEPTEMBER 2020)

 

Fubaraibi Benstowe hails from Bonny Kingdom, Rivers State Nigeria, He attended the Niger Delta University in Bayelsa State, where he obtained a degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering.

His poetry has been published in Praxis magazine, Afripoet.com, African crayon, Nigeria/South-Korea Poetry anthology, Mariner ANA Bayelsa literary Magazine and other publications. In 2014 he was a guest poet at the Ake Art and Book Festival in Abeokuta, Ogun State, was first runner up in the Eriata Eribhabor Poetry competition and a top ten finalist in the Africa-Wide BN Poetry Award based in Uganda in 2014.

Furthermore, Fubaraibi is a recipient of the certificate of excellence from the Girl Child Creativity Concept of Zimbabwe in collaboration with the Society of Young Nigerian Writers (2013). He continues to write and explore his creativity in diverse forms. His poetry focuses on social sanity, injustice, celebration of Africa people, etc. He is currently working on his debut poetry collection.

Albert Afeso Akanbi – SYNW Young Writer of the Month (September 2020)

 

ALBERT AFESO AKANBI – SYNW YOUNG WRITER OF THE MONTH (SEPTEMBER 2020)

 

Albert Afeso Akanbi was born in Nigeria on 31 March, 1982. A writer & filmmaker, he holds a B.Sc. in Economics from Delta State University, Abraka, a certificate in filmmaking from High 

Definition Film Academy, Abuja, Nigeria and participated in the 2017 RNTC Media institute in the Netherlands Persuasive Storytelling and Journalism programme. 

 

One of his short stories was among 50 selected from 38 writers representing 16 countries that appeared in the African Book Club’s maiden anthology The Bundles of Joy and Other Stories 

from Africa published in the United State of America in 2014. As an alumni of the Sangam House International Writers' residency in India, his creative piece on the subject of dance and the writing craft was among the over 44 works selected from over 40 writers cut across 3 continents that appeared in the Vol 3 of the Sangam House reader, Other Windows, published in India in early 2017. 

 

His short story That Sunday Afternoon won the maiden WordMaster Writers’ Challenge competition in May, 2015.

 

In 2018 he released two e-books, Urushi and Other Stories from Ososo and Christians and Muslims: A Collection of Articles to critical acclaim. 

 

In 2019, he released a picture book and a documentary film, both of them to critical acclaim, about Ososo, the scenic town of streams and rocks caught in-between the undulating Somorika 

hills of southern Nigeria. 

 

His op-ed articles appear frequently in a handful Nigerian media platforms. He is the author of OSOSO: Our Place, Our People & Our  Patrimony, The Edge of Patience, Cold Black Night and November 5. 

He is a father.